Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years after Kennedy's announcement, it looked like plans for the library were finally beginning to shape up. The Kennedy Library Corporation--a private body headed by Robert F. Kennedy '44--had raisedabout $18 million from 30 million contributors worldwide. The corporation, moreover, had selected a rising young New York architect by the name of I. M. Pei to design the building. The Cambridge City Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody...
...mistress of the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes. "In the depths of this flaming well," he intoned, "we Mexicans have seen ourselves reflected in Tezcatlipoca's black mirror. Malinche emerged from those depths howling for human sacrifice to satisfy the god of fire." A physical fitness buff, he keeps in shape with a vigorous regimen that includes swimming, archery and javelin throwing. Mexico, in fact, has never had a President with such wide-ranging interests: he plays the guitar, loves to ride horses, and his bedroom is decorated with his own paintings. He has a reputation as an early rising hard...
...P.R.G. was mentioned in the document; the agreement to end the war in Viet Nam has the distinction of being the only document with which I am familiar in diplomatic history that does mention the main parties. The negotiations had begun in 1968 with a haggle over the shape of the table; they ended in 1973 with a haggle in effect over the same problem...
...Irrevy" exposes how the pro-nuclear forces shape the debate about atomic energy. Gofman's chief strength is his ability to penetrate to the core of an issue through barriers of scientific and judicial jargon. He points out that concentration on the dilemma of waste disposal distracts the public's attention from the equally insoluble and more immediate problem of radiation leakage throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from mine to mill to reactor. He assails an emphasis on energy conservation through onerous consumer restraint. He says far larger gains are possible from introduction of energy-efficient design to construction...
...just had to be there. Five hundred mangy-looking journalists hanging out in the Volpe International Building at Logan Airport, waiting for the Pope. Journalists from all over the world, all over the country. Rectangular tags with green and yellow markings; rectangular tags with purple and brown markings; diamond-shape tags with yellow and white markings--the Pontiff's colors. Cameras and tape-recorders and typewriters--more than 100 of them lined up like altar boys on about 20 tables in the makeshift filing center--and telex machines. Long-distance and local phones, lots of them, with quadralingual dialing instructions...